Heterocephalus Rüppell 1842 (naked mole-rat)
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Mammalia - Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Parent taxon: Bathyergidae according to R. L. Honeycutt et al. 1987
See also McKenna and Bell 1997
Sister taxa: Bathyergoides, Bathyergus, Cryptomys, Cyclomylus, Geofossor, Georychus, Gypsorhynchus, Heliophobius, Paracryptomys, Proheliophobius, Tsaganomyinae
Subtaxa: Heterocephalus glaber
Ecology: semifossorial herbivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Ethiopia (3 collections), Tanzania (3)
• Pliocene of Tanzania (8)
Total: 14 collections each including a single occurrence
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